What a piece of garbage this editorial is by Lewis M. Simons, all you have to read is the opening few paragraphs:
I went to Iraq this May on an assignment for National Geographic magazine, already convinced that this war was a mistake. I found myself cloistered in a nightmare world, behind layers of 12-foot concrete barriers beyond which no thinking American strays without armed guards. I returned home a month later, certain that this war, like Vietnam, will never be won.
Coming from a jackass who spent 30 days in Iraq behind barriers, and we’re supposed to believe that are losing and will lose in Iraq. Does he even talk to the soldiers on the ground? To the Commanders? How about the Iraqi people? If he had then he would know differn’t. If you have the stomache to read the whole thing then your a better man then I. It pretty much spells out the talking points from the Michael Moore, MoveOn.org crowd.
This commentor on Iraq The Model pummels Mr. Simons:
Ah, echoes of the lies about Vietnam being transferred into lies about Iraq.
Lewis Simons says to some Vietnamese guide after examining underground tunnels:
“I told my guide that finally I understood why his side had won.”
Not only does he not understand Iraq, he still doesnt even understand Vietnam.
The insurgency that built those tunnels was set back severely in the Tet offensive in 1968 and was effectively defeated by 1971.
After the US secured a peace agreement in 1973, similar to the kinds of armistice that has secured South Korea for over 50 years, the anti-war Left, riding on Nixon’s downfall, took over Congress in 1974. The failure of the US to support the South Vietnamese led directly to a direct invasion by the Communist north. This was not done by guerillas or vietcong, but by a soviet-supplied regular army, which could have been obliterated by our B-52s, but wasnt, because we had the anti-war Left wanting to abandon our friends to Communist armies rather than stand and fight. The anti-war Left threw away a victory that cost over 50,000 lives.
The Vietnamese didnt “win” that war – they lost it, too. Over 1 million boat people, hundreds of thousands sent to ‘camps’ for Communist indoctrination, thousands murdered; no winners there … and then the Cambodian genocide, more wars, more death. there were no Vietnamese “winners” when America abandoned Vietnam, unless you count the small number of Communist thugs pursuing their power grab of the south.
He now misunderstands two wars.
He fails to see that “insurgents” and terrorists winning in Iraq means Iraqis will be the biggest losers.
“What would “winning” in Iraq mean, anyway? A democratic society that’s free to elect an anti-American, pro-Iranian, fundamentalist Islamic government?”
See the strawman here? He can’t admit that maybe democracy could be good for Iraq and could be possible for Iraq. “Democracy = theocracy”? Is that the only choice? A dictator or fundamentalist Government? Maybe he wants Saddam back after all.
Here’s “winning” in Iraq: Iraq is a free, democratic Republic with security and peace internally and with its neighbors and with us. It’s our ally against terrorism and a member of the international community, no longer a rogue regime like saddam’s was.
The goal will become true over time, unless we cut and run and the democratic ‘center’ in Iraq craters under the pressure. It wont happen, because Bush is not listening to the defeatists.
“Since, in my judgment, we were wrong to go in, I’m afraid there’s no good way to get out.”
What this moron is saying is that since he was against the war, it must be objectively true that it is impossible to win it.
Like many in the MSM, he wants us to fail because he wants the US administration to fail, and he will bitch and moan to make his defeatism a self-fullfilling prophecy. What a self-centered boob.
That last paragraph sums up what I have been writing about since I started this blog. The left wants us to fail for the no other reason then it would make the Administration look bad. And that my friends is P A T H E T I C.
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